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Well at least all these breaches are resulting in some positive change in attitudes towards security. It has been a good wake up call.

You read my mind.
I was especially pissed at the kernel.org breaches but having thought about it I would guess it wasn't malicious (I've yet to hear of any tampering) and this kernel.org's fault. EVERY admin should be checking themselves after the sony breach and to see that they haven't makes me a bit angry.
Anyway, lets at least make things difficult for the hackers but securing things properly and not waiting for a breach.

And in 5 years from now they'"ll ask 40 chars long passwords.
Sorry, it's just dumb. That's not secure. That's copy pasting or enforcing super dumb password

If you're into that, then use digital keys for EVERYTHING. That's much more secure than using a space and a bang in your password.
Here's my compliant password.
! qwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty2011
when you're going to ask me to reset it in 30 days, it'll be ! qwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwertyqwerty2012
thank you very much.